Few days ago, the guys at the Apple store had to reinstall my OS and they have installed OS X 10.10. Is there a simple and easy way to create a copy of this to an external hard drive to use it in the future if I need to boot it from an external source?
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Jump to PostCarbon Copy is a tool I use in my data center to clone macs.... there may be a free trail. The external disk that is used as the backup target can be used as the boot device in a pinch.
Other options are
CloneZilla - Requires some setup
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Jump to PostCarbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper! (the former is freeware, the latter is shareware) can both make full-disk bootable backups. I use SuperDuper! every night (at around 2 AM) to makle a bootable backup of my system, to go with my local Time Machine incremental backup and my offsite CrashPlan backups.
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